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      Towards the Internet of Flying Robots: A Survey

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          The Internet of Flying Robots (IoFR) has received much attention in recent years thanks to the mobility and flexibility of flying robots. Although a lot of research has been done, there is a lack of a comprehensive survey on this topic. This paper analyzes several typical problems in designing IoFR for real applications, including wireless communication support, monitoring targets of interest, serving a wireless sensor network, and collaborating with ground robots. In particular, an overview of the existing publications on the coverage problem, connectivity of flying robots, energy capacity limitation, target searching, path planning, flying robot navigation with collision avoidance, etc., is presented. Beyond the discussion of these available approaches, some shortcomings of them are indicated and some promising future research directions are pointed out.

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              Wireless Communications with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Opportunities and Challenges

              Wireless communication systems that include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) promise to provide cost-effective wireless connectivity for devices without infrastructure coverage. Compared to terrestrial communications or those based on high-altitude platforms (HAPs), on-demand wireless systems with low-altitude UAVs are in general faster to deploy, more flexibly re-configured, and are likely to have better communication channels due to the presence of short-range line-of-sight (LoS) links. However, the utilization of highly mobile and energy-constrained UAVs for wireless communications also introduces many new challenges. In this article, we provide an overview of UAV-aided wireless communications, by introducing the basic networking architecture and main channel characteristics, highlighting the key design considerations as well as the new opportunities to be exploited.
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                Journal
                Sensors (Basel)
                Sensors (Basel)
                sensors
                Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
                MDPI
                1424-8220
                19 November 2018
                November 2018
                : 18
                : 11
                : 4038
                Affiliations
                School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia; hailong.huang@ 123456unsw.edu.au
                Author notes
                [* ]Correspondence: a.savkin@ 123456unsw.edu.au ; Tel.: + 61-2-9385-6359
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2667-6423
                Article
                sensors-18-04038
                10.3390/s18114038
                6263391
                30463270
                b33fad03-3d62-4dcd-a0fe-4b033caa0090
                © 2018 by the authors.

                Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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                : 17 October 2018
                : 17 November 2018
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                Biomedical engineering
                flying robots,target tracking,monitoring and surveillance,wireless sensor networks,flying robot navigation,collision avoidance,path planning,internet of things

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